Deficits in Processing of Lexical Tones in Mandarin-speaking Children with Developmental Language Disorder: Electrophysiological Evidence
學年 109
學期 2
出版（發表）日期 2021-03-31
作品名稱 Deficits in Processing of Lexical Tones in Mandarin-speaking Children with Developmental Language Disorder: Electrophysiological Evidence
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著者 Cheng, Y.-Y.; Wu, H.-C.; Shih, H.-Y.; Yeh, P.-W.; Yen, H.-L.; Lee, C.-Y.
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著錄名稱、卷期、頁數 Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 64(4), p.1176-1188
摘要 Purpose This study explored the neural marker indexing deficits in discriminating lexical tone changes in Mandarin-speaking children with developmental language disorders (DLDs) using mismatch negativity, an event-related potential component for auditory change detection. Mandarin has four lexical tones characterized by a high-level tone (T1), high-rising tone (T2), low-dipping tone (T3), and high-falling tone (T4), in which the T2/T3 contrast is acoustically less discriminable in developmental groups. Therefore, this study further examined how deficits in children with DLD would vary with tonal contrasts' acoustic saliency. Method Event-related potentials were measured using the multideviant oddball paradigm described by Lee et al. (2012), who used Mandarin syllables [i] in T3 as the standard sound (80%), T1 as the large deviant (10%), and T2 as the small deviant (10%). Twelve children with DLD aged between 4 and 6 years participated in this study, and 12 age-matched children with typical development were selected from the data set of Lee et al. (2012) as the controls. Results The T1/T3 change elicited adultlike mismatch negativity in both the DLD and control groups, while no group difference was revealed. The T2/T3 change elicited a robust positive mismatch response (P-MMR) in children with DLD, while the P-MMR was less significant in the control group. The group comparisons revealed a larger P-MMR in children with DLD than in the control group. Furthermore, children with lower scores in language assessments tend to reveal larger P-MMRs. Conclusions This study demonstrated that deficits in children with DLD in discriminating subtle lexical tone changes reflect greater positivity of P-MMR to T2/T3 change. This implies that MMR to T2/T3 may serve as a neural marker for evaluating language delay in preschoolers.
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語言 en_US
ISSN 1558-9102
期刊性質 國外
收錄於 SCI SSCI
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通訊作者 Lee, Chia-Ying
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國別 USA
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